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The Adventures of Superman (1952–1958) was a live-action television series about the Man of Steel as he fights crime with help from his friends at the Daily Planet. It was the first to bring the comic-book hero to TV.
- Narrator: Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Man 1: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird.
- Woman: It's a plane.
- Man 2: It's Superman!
- Narrator: Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands. And who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way. And now another exciting episode in the adventures of Superman.
Season 1[edit]
Superman on Earth [1.01][edit]
- Jor-El: Council members, I have completed my solar calculations, and as much as I dread uttering these fateful words, I have come to the conclusion that Krypton is about to be destroyed.
- Lara: If anyone is to survive, let it be our son.
- [Eben pulls the baby from the burning rocket and hands it to Sarah.]
- Eben: Burned much?
- Sarah: Not burned at all. Blanket ain't even scorched.
- White: White speaking. What? Absolutely not. Certainly not. And that's final!
- White: Who the blazes are you?
- Kent: My name is Clark Kent, sir.
- White: I told that girl not to...
- Kent: Please don't blame your receptionist, she doesn't even know I'm in here.
- White: What do you mean she doesn't know? How did you get past her
- Kent: Well, I didn't you see, I came in through the window.
- [On meeting Clark Kent for the first time.]
- White: Crazy. Just crazy.
- Lane: There are one or two things I haven't got quite straight in my mind, Mr. Kent. For example, how did you leave here later than we did and beat us to the airport?
- Kent: Is that all?
- Lane: Not quite. How come you found the man behind the hanger at just the right moment to get his exclusive story when every top experienced reporter in the business was breaking his neck...
- Kent: Or her neck...
- Lane: Or her neck to get that story?
- Kent: Maybe I'm a Superman, Miss Lane.
The Haunted Lighthouse [1.02][edit]
- [On Clark Kent:]
- Aunt Louisa: My, but he's handsome too. As a matter of fact, he looks like... [Clark interrupts]
- Peter the Parrot: Help! Help! I'm drowning!
The Case of the Talkative Dummy [1.03][edit]
- Mr. Marco: I give you all the best lines, all the best gags, but that isn't good enough. You have to add lines of your own. What are you trying to do, take over the act?
- Mr. Marco: Look at him, sitting there so innocently. "In the shade of the old apple tree". "Down by the old mill stream". "Eleven and a half". He knows he's fourteen. He's been fourteen for the last ten years!
- Superman: Jim, a word of advice. After this, keep out of other people's safes.
- Lane: Well there he goes again. Inspector, where does he disappear to all the time?
- Henderson: I don't know. Maybe he runs into an ally, takes off his glasses and turns into Superman.
- Lane: All right Clark, if you're so smart who's on the other end of the phone now?
- Kent: The Chief. And if we're not back at the planet in fifteen seconds flat, we're bothe gonna get fired. Now come on.
The Mystery of the Broken Statues [1.04][edit]
- First Store Owner: All I'm sorry about is that they didn't smash some of the fifty dollar vases.
- Lane: Don't tell me. I'll tell you. Two men walked in the shop, a tall one and a short one. The short one smashed them and the tall one paid for the statues.
- Second Store Owner: How did you know?
- Lane: I read minds.
The Monkey Mystery [1.05][edit]
- Lane: Look, Clark, super-monkey
[Lois reads her "fortune"]
- Lane: I'm going to marry a handsome oil millionaire by the name of "Harvey". Bye, Clark.
- Kent: Where do you think you're going?
- Lane: Well, to meet Harvey, where else?
- Kent: Have you forgotten we're supposed to cover the Petersen trial?
- Lane: You cover it. I can't keep Harvey waiting. Bye-bye.
- Olsen: Wait a minute, where'd you get the tip. The chief's gonna ask me.
- Lane: From a monkey.
- Olsen: Huh?
- White: You say Superman couldn't find the fellow on the train?
- Kent: No. I'm gonna look around more, but--
- White: You are?
- Kent: I mean, Superman is.
- Bad guy one: Get away ok?
- Bad guy two: Duck soup.
- White: Those fellas must think Superman works for the Daily Planet.
- Kent: What!? Who!?
A Night of Terror [1.06][edit]
- Solley: Who's he sending?
- Mitch: Baby Face something
- Solley: Baby Face Stevens?
- Mitch: You know him?
- Solley: I heard about him. Always making with the jokes. And you know what? When he does a job, he takes all but one slug out of this gun. Never misses.
- Olsen: How'd you know it was me?
- Kent: Don't you know that i have X-ray vision?
- Olsen: Oh, sure. Just like Superman.
- Kent: What's on your mind besides the Chicago White Sox.
- Olsen: You guessed it!
- Olsen: She didn't get going until after three.
- Kent: She should've waited till morning.
- Olsen: That's what I told her but she said, "Nothing doing, the chief might get an idea overnight".
- Solley: Hiya, Baby Face.
- Olsen: Could you tell me where to find Miss Lane? I think she's in trouble.
- Solley: You see what I mean, Mitch? Always gagging.
- Lane: Superman you're wonderful. How did you know we were in trouble?
- Superman: A little bird told me.
- Olsen: I bet you the little bird's name was Clark Kent.
- Superman: [chuckles] Could be.
The Birthday Letter [1.07][edit]
- Kathie: Superman, why did you carry me up the fire escape? I thought you could fly. And why did we come here, you promised you'd take me to the fair.
- Slugger: Don't ask so many questions, little girl.
- Kathie: I don't think you're Superman at all. You don't talk like Superman. You don't act like Superman. You don't even look like Superman.
- Marie: Where did ye say the meeting was going to take place?
- Kathie: Oh that? I forget.
The Mind Machine [1.08][edit]
- White: Lois, for the last time, are you going to listen to reason?
- Hadley: Good heavens. What will we do?
- Kent: I'm afraid there's only one thing to do… Look! [knocks Hadley out.]
- Hadley: But, Mr. Kent, I still haven't got this straight. Do you mean to say I blacked out, yet still managed to land the plane safely?
- Kent: Can you think of any other explanation, Mr. Hadley?
- Hadley: Well, goodness me. I had no idea I was such a fine pilot.
- Kent: Lois, I thought you were in danger. I just tried to help.
- Lane: You? Why should I need you help, when I can always count on--
- Kent: I know... Superman.
Rescue [1.09][edit]
- Lane: What's soft about tramping around in dirty old coalmines.
- Kent: Lois, maybe you'll find a diamond.
- Kent: Hello, Mr. Sims. What's all the excitement about?
- Sims: Gas. We just broke through the Joiner drift, found it full of gas.
- Kent: That's too bad.
- Sims: You seem mighty unconcerned, Mr. Kent.
- Kent: Should I be concerned?
- Lane: Superman finally took me out.
The Secret of Superman [1.10][edit]
- White: What is this, the Explorer's Club? A man could starve to death here waiting for a sandwich and coffee.
- Kent: Well, Chief, a lot of people think Superman works for The Planet. You're the editor… Say, maybe they're smarter than we think. Maybe you're Superman!
- White: Me, in that outfit? Now look here, Kent…
- Olsen: Hey, come here.
- Jimmy's tail: I can't talk to you, kid. I'm not allowed.
- Dr. Ort: I dislike dead bodies around the house. They're so untidy.
- Dr. Ort: But Clark Kent is always there.
- Lane: Clark is never there. He arrives when Superman is gone.
- Dr. Ort: He is always there, but they are never seen together.
- Lane: No. Never.
- Dr. Ort: Of course not. They couldn't be because Clark Kent is Superman.
- Lane: Clark, Superman. Yes, he must be.
No Holds Barred [1.11][edit]
- Lane: No matter how right anyone is, there comes a time when he's got to be wrong. It's only human nature.
- White: Sometimes I wonder if Kent is human.
The Deserted Village [1.12][edit]
The Stolen Costume [1.13][edit]
Treasure of the Incas [1.14][edit]
Double Trouble [1.15][edit]
Mystery in Wax [1.16][edit]
The Runaway Robot [1.17][edit]
Drums of Death [1.18][edit]
The Evil Three [1.19][edit]
Riddle of the Chinese Jade [1.20][edit]
The Human Bomb [1.21][edit]
- Superman: No comment until your time limit is up.
Czar of the Underworld [1.22][edit]
The Ghost Wolf [1.23][edit]
Crime Wave [1.24][edit]
The Unknown People (1) [1.25][edit]
"Whoever fired that shot came close to killing Miss Lane. Obviously none of you can be trusted with guns, so I'm going to take them away from you".
[from http://www.jimnolt.com/burgioprofile.htm]
- Superman: It's men like you that make it hard for people to understand each other. You knew nothing would come of this but trouble.
The Unknown People (2) [1.26][edit]
Season 2[edit]
Five Minutes to Doom [2.01][edit]
- Olsen: Chief, I'll go with Ms. Lane. I won't let anything happen to you.
- White: And don't call me Chief!
The Big Squeeze [2.02][edit]
The Man Who Could Read Minds [2.03][edit]
Jet Ace [2.04][edit]
Shot in the Dark [2.05][edit]
The Defeat of Superman [2.06][edit]
Superman in Exile [2.07][edit]
A Ghost for Scotland Yard [2.08][edit]
The Dog Who Knew Superman [2.09][edit]
The Face and the Voice [2.10][edit]
The Man in the Lead Mask [2.11][edit]
Panic in the Sky [2.12][edit]
The Machine That Could Plot Crimes [2.13][edit]
Jungle Devil [2.14][edit]
My Friend Superman [2.15][edit]
The Clown Who Cried [2.16][edit]
The Boy Who Hated Superman [2.17][edit]
Semi-Private Eye [2.18][edit]
Perry White's Scoop [2.19][edit]
Beware the Wrecker [2.20][edit]
The Golden Vulture [2.21][edit]
Jimmy Olsen, Boy Editor [2.22][edit]
- White: Is your name Kent?
- Olsen: No sir, my name's Jimmy Olsen, chief.
- White: Don't call me "chief"!
Lady in Black [2.23][edit]
Star of Fate [2.24][edit]
The Whistling Bird [2.25][edit]
Around the World with Superman [2.26][edit]
Season 3[edit]
Through the Time Barrier [3.01][edit]
The Talking Clue [3.02][edit]
The Lucky Cat [3.03][edit]
Superman Week [3.04][edit]
Great Caesar's Ghost [3.05][edit]
Test of a Warrior [3.06][edit]
Olsen's Millions [3.07][edit]
Clark Kent Outlaw [3.08][edit]
The Magic Necklace [3.09][edit]
The Bully of Dry Gulch [3.10][edit]
Flight to the North [3.11][edit]
The Seven Souvenirs [3.12][edit]
King for a Day [3.13][edit]
Season 4[edit]
Joey [4.01][edit]
The Unlucky Number [4.02][edit]
The Big Freeze [4.03][edit]
Peril by the Sea [4.04][edit]
Topsy Turvy [4.05][edit]
Jimmy the Kid [4.06][edit]
The Girl Who Hired Superman [4.07][edit]
The Wedding of Superman [4.08][edit]
Dagger Island [4.09][edit]
Blackmail [4.10][edit]
The Deadly Rock [4.11][edit]
The Phantom Ring [4.12][edit]
The Jolly Roger [4.13][edit]
Season 5[edit]
Peril in Paris [5.01][edit]
- Olsen: I think I'll send my mother a postcard, "having a wonderful time, wish I was there".
Tin Hero [5.02][edit]
- Olsen: Have you got any ideas, chief?
- White: You're suppose to get the ideas and don't call me "chief"!
- Olsen: Ladies and gentlemen, fellow reporters you all know what a great instinct I have for news.
- White: I know people say you're crazy when you talk to yourself, but by Great Caesar's Ghost, there's no one else around here sane enough to talk to.
Money to Burn [5.03][edit]
The Town That Wasn't [5.04][edit]
- Truck Driver: You can't just lock people up and hold them indefinitely.
- Crook: Yeah, well we're doing it aren't we?
The Tomb of Zaharan [5.05][edit]
- Abdu Ben Bey: And over there's the mosque of Muhammad Ali.
The Man Who Made Dreams Come True [5.06][edit]
Disappearing Lois [5.07][edit]
Close Shave [5.08][edit]
The Phony Alibi [5.09][edit]
The Prince Albert Coat [5.10][edit]
The Stolen Elephant [5.11][edit]
Mr. Zero [5.12][edit]
Whatever Goes Up [5.13][edit]
Season 6[edit]
The Last Knight [6.01][edit]
The Magic Secret [6.02][edit]
Divide and Conquer [6.03][edit]
The Mysterious Cube [6.04][edit]
The Atomic Captive [6.05][edit]
The Superman Silver Mine [6.06][edit]
The Big Forget [6.07][edit]
The Gentle Monster [6.08][edit]
Superman's Wife [6.09][edit]
Three in One [6.10][edit]
The Brainy Burro [6.11][edit]
The Perils of Superman [6.12][edit]
All that Glitters [6.13][edit]
External links[edit]
- The Adventures of Superman quotes at the Internet Movie Database


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Red Cross Asking for Money, Blood Donations [AUDIO]
UNDATED - The Red Cross is asking you to help with their recovery effort from Superstorm Sandy.
Spokeswoman Megan Mrozek says this is going to be one of their biggest recovery efforts they've had in several years.
Mrozek says they've also had to cancel over 100 blood drives, resulting in a nationwide blood shortage. She says you can give blood as a way of helping-out as well.
The Minnesota Red Cross has sent five volunteers and two staff members to help out with the recovery. Mrozek says many more volunteers will be sent in the coming days and weeks.
You can donate money several ways: you can go to their website -- redcross.org, call 1-800-RED-CROSS, or text the Red Cross to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

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Tandler, Peter (2004)
Synchronous Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments.
Technische Universität
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||||
Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||||
Title: | Synchronous Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Referees: | Neuhold, Prof. Dr. Erich J. ; Myers, Prof. Dr. Brad A. | ||||||
Advisors: | Neuhold, Prof. Dr. Erich J. ; Myers, Prof. Dr. Brad A. ; Streitz, Dr. Dr. Norbert A. | ||||||
Date: | 13 December 2004 | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||||
Date of oral examination: | 30 April 2004 | ||||||
Abstract: | Ubiquitous computing environments offer a wide range of devices in many different shapes and sizes, creating new possibilities for interaction. In the context of meetings and teamwork situations, it is desirable to take advantage of their different properties for synchronous collaboration. Besides providing an adapted user interface, this requires the software to be designed for synchronous access to shared information using heterogeneous devices with different interaction characteristics. The handling of these requirements poses challenges for software developers. As this field is still emerging and no mature models, tools, and standards are at hand, developers have to create their own solutions from scratch. The goal of this thesis is to provide guidance and support for developers of synchronous groupware applications for ubiquitous computing environments. They have to be enabled to develop applications more efficiently and with the flexibility and extensibility that is required for ubiquitous computing. The development effort can be reduced effectively if support for developers is provided at several levels. Developers need assistance when creating models of the applications to be developed, when choosing an appropriate architecture, when creating the design, and finally when implementing. This implies that an architecture-driven, model-based development approach should be followed. While the implementation of a single synchronous UbiComp application still requires research, the development of appropriate development support is even more challenging. Common properties of ubiquitous computing applications have to be identified. Future developments and extensions have to be predicted. Requirements of different research areas have to be fulfilled. Addressing these aspects, the goal of this dissertation is accomplished by providing extensions to the state of the art at four levels: A conceptual model of synchronous UbiComp applications defines a high-level structure for applications that ensures reusability and extensibility of developed software components. It identifies separation of concerns, degree of coupling and sharing, and level of abstraction as the three main design dimensions of these applications. The conceptual model provides two key contributions to the state of the art. First, it proposes the strict separation of user interface and interaction concerns orthogonal to the level of abstraction that is not found in current HCI models. This is a crucial extension of HCI models that is required in the context of ubiquitous computing. Second, it introduces a new view on the concept of sharing. By applying the CSCW concept of sharing in the context of ubiquitous computing, sharing user interface, interaction, and environment state becomes relevant. Thereby, the concept of sharing as known from CSCW can be extended to function as a guiding principle for UbiComp application design. This novel design approach helps ensuring the extensibility and flexibility that is required in ubiquitous computing. A flexible software architecture identifies essential abstractions that support the development of synchronous applications in "roomware" environments. Roomware refers to the integration of room elements with information technology, such as interactive tables, walls, or chairs. Roomware environments represent one form of ubiquitous computing environment. They are used in this thesis as an application context for the conceptual model. The software architecture refines the conceptual model to meet the needs of roomware environments. An object-oriented application framework that has been designed and implemented provides a reusable design and reusable software components. Furthermore, extensibility is supported by explicit mechanisms that are provided to allow adaptability for variable aspects of applications. Thus, the application framework helps developers with the design and implementation. To show how model, architecture, and framework can be applied, the design of sample roomware applications is explained. To demonstrate the extensibility, several new forms of interaction that are required for roomware environments are implemented. The developed applications and interaction forms are used in i-LAND, the roomware environment at Fraunhofer IPSI. Besides being a contribution on their own, the developed applications and new forms of interaction provide evidence that the conceptual model effectively supports developers in meeting the requirements of roomware environments. They show that the model helps reduce the implementation effort when accompanied by appropriate software development tools such as the application framework. The conceptual model, software architecture, and application framework presented in this thesis relieve software developers from the burden of handling all details of multiple interaction forms, and of many critical issues when dealing with synchronous collaboration. By these means, the developer can concentrate on the task at hand designing software at an appropriately high abstraction level, and thus create applications with a higher quality that are flexibly extensible. |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Synchrone Zusammenarbeit, konzeptuelles Modellieren, Mehr-Maschinen Benutzungsschnittstelle, Gemeinsame Nutzung von Geräten, Heterogene Geräte, Multimodale Interaktion, Integration virtueller and phsikalischer Welten, Roomware-Komponenten | ||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-5066 | ||||||
Classification DDC: | 000 Generalities, computers, information > 004 Computer science | ||||||
Divisions: | 20 Department of Computer Science | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 17 Oct 2008 09:21 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2012 11:50 | ||||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/506 | ||||||
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NPR has been profiling some of the Republicans who are considering a presidential run in 2012, to find out what first sparked their interest in politics. Read more of those profiles.
In 1971, Jon Huntsman Jr. visited the White House. He was 11 years old, and his father was a businessman and adviser to Richard Nixon. The young Huntsman, the story goes, met Henry Kissinger that day and helped carry his luggage to the car.
If you are really fixated on having that [political] career, you wouldn't have dropped out of high school to be in a rock band, you wouldn't have done some of these interesting things he's done. You would play it more by the book.
When Huntsman asked where Kissinger was going, the national security adviser said, "Don't tell anyone — I'm going to China."
Almost 40 years later, Huntsman got his own historic call to China, when President Obama named him the U.S. ambassador.
"I never expected to be standing here," the former Utah governor said after Obama made the announcement. "Nor did I expect as national co-chair of Sen. McCain's presidential campaign to be called into action by the person who beat us."
It would be tempting to say that the moment with Kissinger led straight to a lifelong career in politics and diplomacy. But people who know him say that's a stretch.
"With Ambassador Huntsman, I don't see a lot of straight lines," says Kirk Jowers, the director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics and a former adviser to Huntsman.
"If you are really fixated on having that career," he says, "you wouldn't have dropped out of high school to be in a rock band, you wouldn't have done some of these interesting things he's done. You would play it more by the book."
'You Can Always Go Into Politics'
Instead, Huntsman went off-script early. His father was in the container and chemical business, and made a fortune creating those plastic "clamshells" for Big Macs in the '70s.
Huntsman recalled some advice his father once gave him: "Son, if you really want to make a difference in this world, you need to go into business. And if you can't cut it in business, you can always go into politics."
Not that his first foray into Utah politics was very successful. In the late 1970s, Huntsman lost an election for senior class president and took it hard. He dropped out of high school, grew his hair long, and joined a rock band called Wizard.
He never got his high school diploma, and the band never got famous. He later said he thought of himself as a loser. But former Utah Sen. Jake Garn, a family friend, would use different words to describe the long-haired, teenage Huntsman: "intelligent and sharp."
And, says Garn, Huntsman was "more knowledgeable about a lot of things than some 25-year-olds that I knew."
It was not a surprise to Garn that Huntsman emerged from his rebellious phase. He enrolled in college and served a Mormon mission in Taiwan. Then, Garn recommended him for a job as an assistant in the Reagan White House, telling them, "This young man will surprise you."
From Low-Level 'Flunky' To Diplomat
The Reagan White House would end up being the spark to Hunstman's public service career, but not in the political way you might think. Huntsman later described his job there as the "lowest level flunky."
He worked on the advance team for Reagan, a job that would end up sending him around the world. He was with Reagan for a trip to Beijing in 1984, a glimpse of international diplomacy that must have been addictive.
Huntsman, fluent in Mandarin from his Mormon mission, entered the diplomatic world. Lew Cramer, president of World Trade Center Utah, worked with Huntsman in the Reagan and Bush administrations. He says Huntsman took eagerly to jobs like deputy U.S. Trade Representative — and clearly not for the glory.
"You end up basically making unhappy people all around the world in order to get these trade agreements done," Cramer says. "There's just no public spotlight on what you are doing, at least in America."
Huntsman surprised people when he finally decided to move into the spotlight.
In Utah, he easily won two terms as governor — and even there, he didn't follow a straight line. He cut taxes, but also embraced civil unions for gay couples.
And now, as he leaves his job as ambassador, Huntsman will have to craft his career into a compelling story for voters.
It's not going to be easy. In fact, the most famous thing about Huntsman may be President Obama heaping praise on him: "I'm sure that him having worked so well with me will be a great asset in any Republican primary," the president said.
It was called "the death hug," and it might be a tough one to escape.
But getting out of uncomfortable situations is what diplomats do. And surprising people, acording to his friends, is a Huntsman specialty.
Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Slow Cooker Coconut Hot Chocolate. {Video!}
Oh my GOSH. You guysssss.
So. You know how I have this food blog where I do weird things like take pictures of food in my dining room and then tell you how OMGamazing it is and that you must must must make it right right now? Like every single day?
Well. This is no exception. Slow cooker hot chocolate: HELLO!
Um, also? Pictured above is a perfect example of how I cannot follow instructions. Apparently "open other end" means "open whatever end you feel like because you never pay attention." Pretty sure most of my previous teachers would agree that I rarely followed directions. Hate it. Bah.
Anyway. I am pretty much dying. This is the creamiest, thickest, richest, most luxurious hot chocolate I have ever tasted. Now I know what people mean when they talk about "sipping chocolate." This is actually like sipping melted chocolate. MELTED freaking chocolate. I mean, seriously. You are practically drinking melted chocolate. Should I maybe say it a fourth time? Hmmmm.
I've been obsessed with the idea of coconut hot chocolate ever since Katie shared some coconut fudgesicles this summer. But, you know, I loooooathe being hot, like to point that you would absolutely hate my guts and think I was the worst human on the face of the earth if you had to spend more than 15 minutes with me outside in the blazing sun in about 85-degree weather… so obviously I could not make this beautiful beverage until there was a chill in the air.
That there I did.
This is huge because I don't even LIKE hot drinks. I really am not a fan of any warm liquid sliding down my esophagus and it feels so unsettling in my stomach. Yeah, laugh it up. I'm sorry. It just makes me feel so… so… yuck. I will probably consume a hot beverage or two that contains the words "peppermint" and "mocha" this season, but just a few. And when I say a few, I really mean about half of one or two. For me, I want iced all the way. Total weirdo. 23 degrees and an iced latte, pleaseandthankyou.
So not only is this drink made with real coconut milk, chopped dark chocolate and cocoa, the mugs are rimmed with crushed toasted coconut. It's complete with some of your favorite marshmallows and a a big puff of coconut whipped cream plopped right in the center, but I wouldn't hate it if you added a little Baileys or Kahlua or whatever. Can you even think of anything better?
Oh wait. I can. You made it in your CROCKPOT. Pour, stir, done.
Thick and Creamy Crockpot Coconut Hot Chocolate
- 4 (13 oz) cans full-fat coconut milk
- 2 (14 oz) cans sweetened condensed milk
- 8 ounces high-quality dark chocolate, chopped
- 1/4 cup dutch process cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons coconut extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsweetened flaked or shredded coconut
- frosting to rim the mugs
- whipped cream or
- coconut whipped cream for topping
- marshmallows for topping
- Add coconut milk, condensed milk and extracts to your crock pot, whisking to combine. Stir in salt, cocoa powder and chocolate, whisking again. Cover and cook on low for 2 hours. You want to stir and whisk every 15 minutes or so, making sure the chocolate melts nicely and is thoroughly distributed throughout the mixture. The best thing I can say here is to "know" your crockpot. I knew that mine could sit on low for a few hours while being mixed at least once every 30 minutes. After a while it began to thicken and bubble on the sides, so I left it on but removed the lid and whisked well. Just keep your eye on it and whisk everything together.
- Before serving, add coconut to a small saucepan and heat over low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon. Toast for 5-6 minutes until golden. Let cool, then add to a paper or ziplock bag and crush with you hands under small flakes remain.
- To serve, rim the edges of a mug with some frosting or glaze or something sticky, then dip the rims in the toasted coconut flakes. pressing gently to adhere. Pour hot chocolate in the mugs and garnish with whipped cream and marshmallows.
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Am I a Candidate for Professional Teeth Whitening in Chino?
Ever wonder how some people just have the brightest teeth? Well, chances are they've had some dental help in keeping that smile so bright. Advances in oral health have brought multiple teeth whitening products to the market. Many of these products can be purchased over the counter at your local drug store or even at the supermarket. Some of these are good alternatives to the ones provided by your local Chino dentist. But the best (and safest) methods for whitening your teeth come from your favorite dentist… Oscar Gochez! So how do you know if you're a good candidate for teeth whitening services? Let's take a look at what's causing your tooth discoloration.
What causes tooth discoloration?
If you're a younger patient suffering from tooth discoloration, then chances are your diet and habits have caused your teeth to yellow. Dark liquids such as Coke and other sodas can cause discoloration. Coffee is also a big proprietor of teeth stains. Other oral habits such as heavy alcohol intake, smoking, and tobacco use can lead to yellow stains as well.
There are a few factors that contribute to teeth yellowing that may be out of a patient's control. Taking certain medications, for instance, can cause tooth discoloration. Age can also play a role, as enamel tends to thin as we get older. It may be best to talk to your dentist about teeth whitening solutions before trying any over the counter remedies. You definitely don't want to cause any harm to your teeth!
The best candidates for teeth whitening
As we discussed above, the best candidates seeking professional teeth whitening services in Chino, will be patients that more or less consume everyday products that cause yellowing. This would be the everyday coffee or soda drinkers, or even tobacco users. Red wine and dark alcohol drinkers might also benefit, however, because wine is very acidic, you need to mindful of your enamel.
Not so good candidates for teeth whitening
Internal factors that can lead to yellowing or discoloration of the teeth might include:
- Age and pregnancy issues. Teeth whitening is not recommended for children under the age of 16. Older patients with thin enamel may not be the best candidates either. These patients may be ideal candidates for dental veneers or crowns.
- Patients with gum disease, cavities or exposed roots. Teeth whitening solutions are made to penetrate and break apart stains. This means that the solution can cause further damage to decay and cavities. Exposed roots on a tooth have no enamel layer, and the solution may cause further damage and sensitivity. Patients may be candidates for other gum disease treatments in these cases, as well as veneer and crown solutions.
Types of professional teeth whitening
Upon visiting the dentist for professional teeth whitening services, you will find there are generally two methods used.
In office power bleaching
The first method is the in-office power bleaching session. This is generally going to be the quickest and safest method of professional teeth whitening. The actual process may vary from dentist to dentist and can involve a ultra-violet light or simply a high powered gel solution. You can expect these sessions to last 20-40 mins or broken into two separate sessions. In-office bleaching might be right for you if you rarely engage in any stain causing activities and just want to have your teeth whitening as quickly as possible.
At home bleaching trays
The second method is done in the comfort of your own home, using the professionally molded trays provided by your dentist. Your visit to mold the trays is quick and easy and can be done after a checkup if needed. The doctor or hygienist will take an impression of your upper and lower teeth during your visit. They will then send these impressions to the lab for plastic trays to be made. On your next visit, they will then make sure the trays fit properly and provide you with a solution and directions that you can use at home.
At Hope Family Dentistry we are here to answer any questions you may have about the health of your smile and the brightness of your teeth! Feel free to contact us today with any questions.


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The trackpad on my wife's 17" Macbook Pro seems to be failing. She'll be in the middle of working when suddenly it will stop responding to input. Both the tracking (i.e. mouse movement) and button clicking just stop responding. She usually has an external mouse plugged in, and this continues to work fine; just the trackpad dies.
She reports that it usually happens within a minute or two of beginning work. If she puts the machine to sleep and then wakes it, the trackpad will start working again for another couple of minutes.
Her machine is a 17" Macbook Pro from fall 2009. She's still running 10.5.8 on it. We'd consider upgrading to Snow Leopard if there's a good chance it'll help, but this really sounds like a hardware issue to me.
Is there anything we can try to fix this, or must it really be sent to Apple for repair? We do have AppleCare on it, but we're not too thrilled about having to be without the machine for weeks.


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The mystery remains entire, in the French parlance, as authorities on Friday continued their investigation into shooting deaths of a British family and a local cyclist on a mountain road in the French Alps. But as France opens a formal inquiry into the gruesome quadruple murder, sending its own investigators to Britain and awaiting the results of autopsies, new lines of inquiry are earning attention on both sides of the Channel. In particular, a family feud between an Iraqi-born British victim and his brother.
Three bodies were discovered Wednesday in an idling BMW and a fourth, a cyclist, beside the car in an isolated clearing near the village of Chevaline in the hills above Lake Annecy. Two small girls— Zaïma, a 7-year-old who suffered severe head injuries at the hands of a mystery assailant, and Zeena, 4, found inside the car eight hours after authorities were called to the scene—are under police protection. Police said the youngest girl was able to confirm Friday that the car's driver and a woman in the backseat were her parents, Baghdad-born Briton Saad al-Hilli, 50, and his wife, Iqbal, even as British and French media have been staking out the Al-Hilli home in Claygate, Surrey, southwest of London.
Police said the 4-year-old did not confirm that an older woman discovered dead in the backseat was her maternal grandmother, as has been presumed, although authorities have confirmed that woman held a Swedish passport and was also of Iraqi origin. Authorities on Thursday said Al-Hilli had lived in Britain since at least 2002, although one widely cited Agence France Presse source claims the man, thought to be an engineer, came to Britain with his family as a teenager in the 1970s.
The foreign victims are being treated by French authorities as British and Swedish citizens, respectively, not as Iraqi nationals. Still, Annecy Public Prosecutor Eric Maillaud in a press conference on Friday conceded, in response to a question following up on rumors that Al-Hilli had once been under British counter-terror surveillance, that the car-owner's Iraqi origins initially stood out. "As it is, our information, on the French side, on the English side: Totally unknown in regards to terrorism, anti-terrorism," said Maillaud. "'Born in Iraq,' we all thought about it instantaneously, [but he is] totally unknown to the specialized services on the British side, on the French side, that work on those issues."
A French gendarme on the case has been dispatched to London, where he will be joined by three additional French investigators.
Neither orphaned child has yet been able to provide useful information regarding the attack itself, authorities said. The older girl, who suffered skull fractures and a gunshot wound to the shoulder, remains in a medically induced coma and has endured multiple surgeries; authorities will wait for a green light from medical staff before questioning her. Maillaud told the TF1 national news broadcast on Thursday evening that the youngest child, given her age, could not at this point be considered "a key witness."
All the victims were shot at least three times, each at least once in the head, while police found 25 shell casings at the scene. The murdered cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, 45, from the nearby village of Ugine, was reportedly shot five times. French media claimed Mollier was on parental leave after the birth of his third child two months ago. Authorities said it is most likely that he was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Public Prosecutor Maillaud has indicated that the investigation would take seriously, among other lines of inquiry, the allegation that Al-Hilli and his brother had been embroiled in a financial dispute. "It seems there was a dispute about money. It is a piece of information that seems serious, that comes from the British police. The brother must be heard at length," he told reporters on Friday. Al-Hilli's brother visited a British police station on Thursday, unbidden, after hearing a TV report that his brother had been murdered in France. French authorities say Al-Hilli's brother, being named by media as Zaïd, visited British police again on Friday to deny widespread reports that he was in conflict with Saad Al-Hilli.
Indeed, French radio station RMC on Friday morning aired an interview with a man, also named Zaïd, claiming to be a family friend who studied dentistry with Saad Al-Hilli's wife, Iqbal, in Iraq before moving to Claygate himself. "There is an issue with inheritance," the family friend alleged on RMC, between the brothers following their father's death last year. "There are lots of properties involved, in Spain, in France, in Switzerland, and Iraq," he said, claiming the brothers were no longer on speaking terms and suggesting the fraternal dispute be taken into account in investigating murders he surmised were targeted.
Maillaud, meanwhile, urged restraint from observers. He said Saad Al-Hilli's brother would eventually be questioned, but as a witness—implying that he wasn't at this point a suspect. "It isn't because someone says there is a dispute between two brothers that he is necessarily the prime suspect in the murder, with bullets to the head, of an entire family," Maillaud argued.
Another purported witness has featured heavily in French coverage of the massacre. Sylvie Lecoeur, a local woman, has told reporters that she was nearly hit by a white car traveling at great speed on a bend at the Chevaline village limits on Wednesday afternoon, around the time of the massacre. "He was completely in panic and gave the impression he no longer had any control of his vehicle," she said of the driver on France's BFMTV. Elsewhere, the same woman described the man as having brown hair, relatively fair skin, and wearing a black shirt, perhaps Polo-style. But authorities would only say that they had received many tips about a variety of vehicles in the area on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the cyclist and former Royal Air Force member who discovered the murder scene on Wednesday has told police he saw a green SUV and a motorcycle traveling on the road leading away from the scene before he reached it. But the Annecy public prosecutor stressed that SUVs were especially common in this mountainous region of France and that this particular vehicle sighting—the make and model of which was unknown—was not being treated as a key element of the inquiry. The cyclist did not report hearing any gunshots in the moments before he came across the Al-Hillis' bullet-riddled burgundy station wagon.
On Friday morning, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls on RTL radio dismissed accusations of incompetence leveled at police—in particular by British media—after the delayed discovery of the 4-year-old girl, found hidden under a dead woman's skirt in the backseat eight hours after the murders were initially reported. "I will not participate in this useless and unjustified polemic," said Valls. "I think that there was no fault."


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If you're a student wanting to attend ESUG, have you considered being a student volunteer? Student volunteers help keep the conference running smoothly; in return, they have free accommodations, while still having most of the time to enjoy the conference.
Apply soon: there are a limited number of student volunteer positions available. Student volunteers will be notified by the end of May 2009.
Where: Brest, France When: August 31 - September 4, 2009 (saturday 29 if you want to participate to the smalltalk camp) What: Esug 2009 - a gathering of industry, academia, and other Smalltalk enthusiasts. http://www.esug.org/Conferences/2009/.
For which period are accomodations covered? Accomodations are covered from Sunday, August 30 to Thursday, September 3rd, inclusive. Students will be hosted in student rooms
Which costs are not covered? Travel costs and accomodations during Camp Smalltalk (August 29th) preceeding the conference) (unless it's necessary; contact us).
To sign up: send to firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com anemail with the following information: First name, last name, university, an email address where you can always be reached, your university, and optionally, any special information you think is important/relevant. Your mail should be TAGGED as follow: [ESUG 2009 Student]. If you do not tagged your mail it will not be proceeded.
Past duties have involved handling registration as people arrive at the conference, staffing coffee machines, collecting presentation slides for ESUG right after the presentation is given, being present at an information desk to answer questions, and generally being helpful. Student volunteering makes the conference better, take a fairly small amount of time and doesn't significantly interfere with enjoying and learning from the conference.


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"I'm like that old school fighter, that
Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, that Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey. Those guys
didn't care who you put in front of them, they were ready to fight." - Mike Easton
If you're ever wondering if Mike Easton is at a fight, don't bother looking for the bantamweight contender. Just open your ears and you'll probably hear him. From Octagonside to the rafters, "The Hulk" has an uncanny way of making himself heard. Case in point, his coaching of teammate James Vick – from the stands no less – during The Ultimate Fighter alum's win over Ramsey Nijem in August.
Easton just laughs.
"When you're training and you're with your teammates, you guys are a family now," he explains. "But first and foremost, I'm a fan of the UFC. Even though I fight in the UFC, I'm still a fan. When I watch fights I still get excited, I get goosebumps, and then I get even more excited when my teammates fight. I'm sure other guys feel the same way about me, and it's just a good time. That's the main thing. I really enjoy watching the UFC."
That's not just talk either, as one night of hearing Easton cheer on his peers solidifies that statement. But then again, the 29-year-old Maryland product has never come off as the shy, retiring type, and ever since he walked into Lloyd Irvin's gym at the age of 17, he's made it loud and clear that his only goal was to make it to the Octagon. A decade later, he arrived with a 2011 win over Byron Bloodworth (in Washington, D.C.) no less, and he was off and running. And not surprisingly, the joy of being a UFC fighter hasn't worn off.
"I love the UFC even more because I get to see the behind the scenes, what all the other fighters go through, and we're all cutting weight together," he said. "Even the guy you're fighting, you'll see him inside the sauna with you, and although it's our job, we were all fans of the UFC first, so it makes me appreciate it even more."
One conversation with Easton will let you know that he doesn't just appreciate life in the UFC, but life itself, and when you ask him if he's going to settle down a bit as his 30th birthday closes in on January 25, well, you know the answer to that one.
"I still feel like I'm 21," he said. "Yes I have an old soul, but I still act like a big ol' kid. I play video games with my son and we have a good time. I don't think I'll ever change. I'm the oldest child, but the most playful one, and I think that's the reason why I'm so energetic. I was definitely the Toys 'R Us kid – I don't want to grow up. (Laughs) That's me. 30 is the new 20."
Maybe, but in this sport, soon to be 30-year-olds still have to watch out for the injuries that come along with the gig. Easton knows that all too well, having been sidelined for much of 2013. But the fight he did have – in April against Brad Pickett – was a memorable one, even if he did end up on the short side of a split decision.
"Little injuries and stuff happen, and you don't want to go in there half-assed, but when I fought, I fought Brad Pickett, which was a Fight of the Night, and so every time I come into a fight I go in to fight, regardless of if I fight once a year or three times a year; it doesn't matter," he said. "Every time that I'm in the cage, I'm gonna make sure that I put on a show, and that's what helps sell tickets. I want to become a household name in the UFC and I'm starting to. People know who I am and they're starting to realize that Mike Easton is the guy that comes in there to bang and to fight. And although I come in there to bang and fight, I'm a very good fighter and I'm smart at what I do. I just want to be able to sell tickets and be one of those guys that brings the fans out."
There should be plenty of those fans in attendance at The Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Georgia that will be showing up to see Easton battle it out with TJ Dillashaw in a key bantamweight bout, and "The Hulk" has every intention of giving them something to talk about.
"I want to win, no ifs, ands, or buts about it, and I feel as though I can finish TJ Dillashaw," he said. "Although he's a great fighter and a great competitor and trains with a good camp, I just feel as though I'm ready to finish this guy. I'm not leaving it to the judges."
And with that statement, Mike Easton probably made some of his fistic heroes very proud.
"I just come to fight," he said. "I'm like that old school fighter, that Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, that Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey. Those guys didn't care who you put in front of them, they were ready to fight. Win, lose, or draw, you put me in that cage, let's fight, let's rumble. I'm not backing down from anybody."
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Has HAMP Gotten Any Better at Helping Distressed Homeowners?
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Before the housing bubble burst, Anthony Ugaro lived across from a country club in Bloomfield, N.J. "I was playing golf every day. I thought I was a duke," he said. But the good life began to unravel for Ugaro, 65, when the military veteran lost his job at an electronics company in 2009. Soon after, he was diagnosed with heart disease, which hampered his ability to work and to keep up with mortgage payments.
Suddenly facing foreclosure, Ugaro twice ignored his doctor's advice and took on part-time jobs to make ends meet. His wife, Judy, currently works three jobs, he said, and they have exhausted $55,000 in savings, all to stay afloat.
The Ugaros (pictured above) are the kind of homeowners that the government was trying to help with its flagship housing aid program. But three years later, after repeated efforts to work with their lender through the Home Affordable Modification Program, they've joined millions of others who've had their HAMP applications denied, for reasons many of them find hard to understand. And the Ugaros have just about given up hope.
'We Can't Help You'
Ugaro said he first applied for a mortgage modification under HAMP about a year ago. Wells Fargo told him that his household did not earn enough monthly income to qualify, he said, so Ugaro, who has six stents in his heart, got a part-time job as a crosswalk guard that he said paid $324 a month.
He then reapplied for a modification, but said he was confounded by the bank's response: "They said, 'Now you're making too much. We can't help you.'
"I could see why Jesse James robbed banks," said Ugaro, who finally stopped paying his mortgage two months ago and is now trying to sell his home in a short sale.
He is one of an estimated 2.8 million distressed borrowers who have been denied a permanent modification under HAMP, according to the Government Accountability Office. By many accounts, HAMP has not been adequately implemented by mortgage servicers.
The Ugaros' story is a reflection of the still-marred HAMP application process more than three years after the program's inception — both in the the way it's so far failed to help many homeowners like them and the way it's showing some improvement.
Overseen by the Treasury Department and funded by the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, HAMP was launched in 2009 to provide relief to a wide swath of homeowners facing foreclosure in the wake of the housing bust. The program is designed to lower monthly mortgage payments for distressed borrowers by either reducing interest rates, delaying payments, slashing loan balances or using some combination of the three.
The results of a ProPublica questionnaire in the summer of 2010 suggested that many distressed borrowers have had experiences similar to the Ugaros' in attempting to qualify for HAMP. Two-thirds of respondents to the questionnaire who indicated that they were denied HAMP modifications said that they were given "different or conflicting reasons" for why they didn't qualify.
Alys Cohen, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, said widespread mishandling of applications has plagued HAMP since it's launch in spring 2009. While many HAMP denials are merited, many others are a result of mortgage servicers' mistakes, and those servicers aren't subject to fines for flouting HAMP guidelines, Cohen said.
"Until people can protect themselves directly in real time, servicers are not going to follow the rules," and relief to homeowners will not flow as it should, she said.
Since the Obama administration introduced HAMP — which had reduced monthly mortgage payments by a median amount of $534.98 as of April 2012 — only about 1 in 4 applicants have received a permanent modification.
According to the Government Accountability Office, 2.8 million have had their applications denied or their trial modification canceled. To date, a little more than 1 million have received a permanent modification — but the program was aiming to have helped 3 to 4 times that.
Despite Rejections, Glimmers of Improvement
Despite a record of bungling HAMP applications, servicers still appear to have made strides in implementing the program over the last two years. Ironically, the Ugaros' experience points to some of them.
Anthony Ugaro, who worked at an Army hospital during the Vietnam War, said that he only had to wait eight weeks for written denials to his applications from Wells Fargo. That's a big improvement from ProPublica's finding that homeowners waited an average of 14 months to learn if they'd qualified for HAMP. (Two-thirds of those ultimately rejected said that they never received written denials, according to the ProPublica survey.) A servicer is required to send a rejected borrower a written denial under HAMP program guidelines.
The Treasury Department's most recent Making Home Affordable Program Performance report, released monthly, showed that servicers have, indeed, made progress in using HAMP, particularly in the area of income calculation.
For example, the Treasury found that more than 1 in 4 calculations of a borrower's income performed by Wells Fargo when evaluating HAMP applications was at least 5 percent off the mark in the first quarter of 2011. Now, just 1 in 50 are off by that much.
Wrongly Denied?
Could the Ugaros have been mistakenly denied a HAMP modification? That's unclear. But the couple does appear to meet all the main eligibility requirements of HAMP.
Their home is their primary residence, their mortgage was originated before 2009 and they owe less than $729,750 on their mortgage. (They owe about $230,000.) Anthony's layoff and heart disease diagnosis also qualifies as a hardship.
They seem to qualify for a HAMP modification financially, too. The Treasury's latest performance report said that the average household's median mortgage payment before receiving a permanent modification equaled 45.4 percent of the household's monthly income. When they applied, the Ugaros' $2,400 monthly mortgage payment was between 50 and 60 percent of their $4,300 monthly household income.
If anything, the Ugaros would appear to have not been making enough money to qualify, but they were told the opposite for their second denial — that they made too much. That makes Wells Fargo's decision on their applications difficult to digest for the couple.
A Wells Fargo representative told AOL Real Estate that the Ugaros' income was, in fact, not a factor in denying them a modification, but didn't offer further explanation.
"We are attempting to reach the Ugaros to discuss their current situation and will try to work with them on potential options for assistance," said Vickee J. Adams, vice president of external communications at Wells Fargo.
Calculated income is just one factor included in a "net present value test," which can make or break a modification for HAMP applicants. The test evaluates whether or not a mortgage's investor — which often is not actually the mortgage's servicer — is likely to make more money through a loan modification. (Mortgage investors can include hedge funds, institutions, pension funds and mutual funds, among other entities.)
If the test determines that a modification will save an investor money, then it must perform the modification. Otherwise, a servicer may choose not to. A failure by lenders to either correctly enter or calculate the test numbers has resulted in a substantial number of improper HAMP denials, according to the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the Government Accountability Office.
Little Recourse for Rejected Borrowers
People denied HAMP modifications can call 1-888-996-HOPE and ask to speak to "MHA Help," and "depending on the circumstances," this may require a servicer "to re-solicit or re-evaluate impacted borrowers," the Treasury Department told AOL Real Estate.
But Cohen said that only a small minority of aggrieved HAMP applicants know about the option and pursue it. She also said that even if the Treasury Department determines that a borrower was wrongly denied a modification, it has trouble holding a servicer's feet to the fire. It cannot impose fines on lenders for breaching HAMP guidelines.
What the Treasury can do is nudge lenders in the right direction by withholding or reducing financial incentives. It withheld nearly $200 million from Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, before releasing those funds as part of the "robo-signing" settlement. But that approach hasn't cut it, Cohen said.
"To date, enforcement by the Treasury of HAMP guidelines has been abysmal," she said.
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau could potentially create rules and penalties that would impose more discipline on servicers, she said. In fact, the agency, which was created in 2011 as part of the Dodd-Frank Act, is in the process of crafting such rules right now.
A CFPB spokesperson told AOL Real Estate that the agency intends to enact a "means for a consumer to appeal denials for loan modifications programs."
But Cohen wonders if such a rule will offer enough protection.
"The bottom line is, if those rules are not directly usable by the homeowner when they're in foreclosure, they will have limited value."
See also:
Principal Reduction: Is Debt Forgiveness Fair?
High-End Homeowners Racing to Sell Before Tax Cuts End
Michigan Man Buys County's Entire Foreclosure Stock
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Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said at a news conference that 27-year-old Mohammed Whitaker of Grandview has been charged with 18 felony counts and is being held on $1 million bail. Baker said Whitaker was charged with two counts of shooting into a motor vehicle and injuring a person, seven counts of shooting into a motor vehicle and nine counts of armed criminal action.
At least six of the shootings occurred near Grandview. The Kansas City suburb is home to an area known as the Grandview Triangle, where three interstates and U.S. 50 intersect.
Other shootings were reported in the Missouri suburbs of Blue Springs and Lee's Summit and Leawood, Kan. Two of the wounded drivers were shot in the leg, and the third was shot in the arm. None of their wounds was considered life-threatening.
The last confirmed shooting believed to be connected to the case was reported April 6, about a month after the shootings began.
Whitaker was taken into custody Thursday at a home near Interstate 49, one of the highways that intersects at the Grandview Triangle. Police also confiscated a dark green Dodge Neon.
Police began noticing a pattern about two weeks ago after receiving reports of apparently random shootings at vehicles. Earlier this month, investigators were looking into about 20 reports of shootings, but that number has fluctuated. Late last week, police said they had connected a dozen shootings to the same person, but they have said little else about how the shootings were linked or what kind of vehicle the suspect drove.
Police did not say what led them to the suspect, but have said they received more than 100 tips. A reward of up to $10,000 was offered for information leading to an arrest. Police haven't said if anyone will be claiming the reward money.


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In June, I was honored to be a guest of the Eastman Chemical Company at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, held in Washington, D.C. Eastman was recognized for the development of a green biocatalytic process that eliminates the need for high temperatures and strong acids in manufacturing esters. The honor I felt being invited to the ceremony was quickly accompanied by a strong sense of humility. We know there are brilliant minds behind the products we reach for, bleary-eyed, each morning, and we know that there are years of hard work invested in the creams we apply each evening as our last task before slumber. But when a U.S. Armed Forces Color Guard snaps to attention and the acting director of the EPA talks about initiatives and outcomes, it's clear we are involved in a bigger picture. These brilliant minds make a difference in a much broader scope, and the good work the industry does is not limited in application to outward appearances.
Whether the goal is changing the world or simply creating and maintaining a successful brand or business, there are two components that are key: striving to understand those whom we are serving and forging mutually beneficial partnerships.
"It is critical that we start with a deep understanding of consumers and their buying habits and preferences," Thomas Jonas, president of MWV Personal & Beauty Care, told me in a conversation about the current challenges to the industry and how to forge through them. "The challenge on which we will partner with [brand owners] is understanding how that experience varies among consumers across all demographics, geographies and preferences."
In its own quest to understand the needs of those it serves, GCI magazine spoke with a representative segment of its readership regarding content expectations, and, among the outcomes of those conversations, we've developed a new tagline: Beauty Business, Brand Impact—which you can see in use on the cover of this issue. We felt the change was necessary to express both what unites our wide-ranging readership (the beauty business) and communicate our content goals—to provide actionable information, insights and data that will translate into brand impact.


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PEOPLE in the prime of their working lives make up the largest share of the population on unemployment benefits, a trend unions and social services groups say reflects greater insecurity at work.
While older workers face a greater risk of long-term unemployment, official figures show those aged 25 to 34 and 35 to 44 are the two biggest groups to receive Newstart payments. The two groups account for nearly half of all Newstart recipients. The next largest group are those aged between 45 and 54.
The chief executive of the Australian Council of Social Service, Cassandra Goldie, said the extent of Newstart payments to people in their 30s and 40s was affected by the growing prevalence of irregular and casual work, which was being felt by workers of all ages.
''The idea that there's a job for life is no longer the reality in Australia,'' Dr Goldie said.
''People can lose their job and this can happen in the prime of your working life, and then it becomes really hard.
''Often there's a need to retrain … and if you don't have the financial resources to do that you can get really stuck.''
ACTU president Ged Kearney said there were anecdotal reports that many people who had finished studying or training were struggling to find full-time work, leading to a cycle of casual or irregular employment.
''What we've seen is people are caught in short-term work or casual labour,'' she said.
''This certainly is a story we're hearing from a lot of people in their late 20s and 30s.''
Although people in their prime working years account for the highest share of Newstart benefits, those aged over 55 have a higher risk of long-term unemployment - being out of work for a year or more.
The Australian Human Rights Commission recently told a senate committee that 33 per cent of unemployed people aged 55 to 64 had been jobless for a year or more, compared with 22 per cent for those between 35 and 44.


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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Explanation: Who guards the north? Judging from the above photograph, possibly giant trees covered in snow and ice. The picture was taken last winter in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow. Surreal landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become cloaked in white and so appear, to some, as watchful aliens. Far in the distance, behind this uncommon Earthly vista, is a more common sight -- a Belt of Venus that divided a darkened from sunlit sky as the Sun rose behind the photographer. Of course, in the spring, the trees have thawed and Lapland looks much different.
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IAS Summer School, University of Warwick, 15-19 July 2013
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Contesting Claims for Expertise in a Post-Secular Age: In Search of Intellectual Life
IAS Summer School, University of Warwick, 15-19 July 2013
The current moment seems to be one of 'crisis' or at least of dramatic change for the authority of academic expertise. Policy debates over climate change, embryology and the like have often seen scientific knowledge politicised, problematised and reduced in public imagination to just another partial 'perspective'. These issues are particularly acute where scientific expertise runs up against that of, or associated with, markets. Whilst authority that is grounded in the experience of practicing natural and social science seems to flounder, authority that is associated with market forces seems only to gain in stature – despite recent disasters wrought under the watch of just such expertise. This creates and compounds a series of dilemmas for critical academic practice that are bound up with changing conceptions of what constitutes public life. The arrival of a post-secular moment in which religion has re-entered the public sphere further unsettles debates about expertise, science and religion. This summer school provides a space for postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other early career academics to come together to respond to this 'crisis' and to think through new avenues for intellectual life, practice and collaboration – reaching across boundaries of science, religion, critique, participation, pragmatism, vitalist ethics, and explanation. Together, we will work through the challenges of the present moment and ask whether there is a conceptual language or theoretical framework for addressing such challenges beyond disciplinary divides. The summer school offers a mix of expert lectures and participant-led discussion groups as well as workshops organised by members of the Authority Research Network. For more information about the summer school, please visit our website: http://buff.ly/UzqIhe
Keynote academics:
Bob Antonio (University of Kansas), John Holmwood (University of Nottingham), Amy Levine (Changwon National University), Celia Lury (University of Warwick), Andrew McGettigan (Independent), Thomas Osborne (University of Bristol), Nigel Thrift (University of Warwick, tbc), Stephen Turner (Florida University), Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford)
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WLAN firmware gets update
Belden's Hilcos 8.50 firmware integrates Hirschmann Access Points and Clients into Profinet and Ethernet/IP Networks without the need for additional management software, the company said.
Belden Hilcos 8.50 is an updated version of its established WLAN firmware. New to this firmware version is the ability to integrate Hirschmann Access Points and Clients into Siemens' Step 7 (Profinet) and Rockwell's RSLogix 5000 (EtherNet/IP) automation software without requiring additional management software, thus allowing flexible administration, Belden said. All devices from the Hirschmann BAT54 and BAT300 WLAN Series delivered in the future will have Hilcos 8.50 firmware installed as standard. To enable customers to update older access points and clients, the firmware is also available for download free at: www.e-catalog.beldensolutions.com.
Use of protocol stacks for Profinet I/O and the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) from EtherNet/IP makes it possible to visualize access points via the network controllers. In that way, WLAN devices can be easily configured and securely monitored, Belden said, and the firmware provides a number of WLAN-specific functions available via the controllers. These include the signal strength and data rate of the wireless connection. It is also possible to define threshold values and link these to alarms.
WLAN is used widely in industrial environments. As Sven Burkard, Belden's product manager for networking and connectivity products, said, "Profinet and EtherNet/IP are currently used in around 30 percent of all automation systems worldwide. This new firmware means WLAN networks can now easily be used with such systems, opening up completely new perspectives in the automobile industry, or in sectors such as oil and gas."
Belden describes itself as a global provider in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications.
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The following obituaries were received for Tuesday –
Dasan E. Spires – Heltonville
Dasan E. Spires, 33, of Heltonville, passed away on Saturday, July 28, 2012 from injuries sustained in an auto accident which also claimed the life of his fiancé Laura Duncan.
Born March 15, 1979 in Bedford, he was the son of Michael and Christie (Harrell) Spires. He was a graduate of Bedford North Lawrence High School with the class of 1998. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy where he received a commendation medal for extinguishing a fire which threatened a plane and its' pilot. He owned A-1 Excavating and was a member of the Operating Engineers Union Local 141 and of the Baptist faith. He loved his family and friends, riding his Harley, boating, weightlifting, the outdoors and caring for his dogs.
Survivors include his mother Christie, of Heltonville; his father, Michael, of Bedford; two brothers, Ty Spires, of Heltonville, Cam Spires and wife Amy, of Springville; a nieces, Chloe Spires; nephews, Caden and Casen Spires; Aunt, Donna Evans, of Heltonville; uncles, Greg Spires, of Bloomington, Steven Spires and wife, Cora, of Bedford, Tracy Spires and wife Mary, of Colorado; several cousins and his grandmother, Helen Spires, of Bedford.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Herbert Dale and Violet Harrell; his paternal grandfather, Charles Eugene Spires.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Thursday, August 2nd in the Elmwood Chapel of Day & Carter Mortuary with Randy Corbin officiating. Burial will follow in Gilgal Cemetery in Heltonville with military rites accorded at the graveside by members of Gillen Post 33 American Legion. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, August 1st and from 1 p.m. until the hour of service on Thursday, August 2nd at the Day & Carter Mortuary.
The family ask that friends consider memorial contributions be made to the Heltonville Fire Department, at P.O. Box 111, Heltonville, IN. 47436.
Family and friends are invited to sign the guest book and light a candle in memory of Dasan at www.daycarter.com.


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Hard knocks, It was revealed over the weekend that the Cincinnati Bengals will be reprising their turn on the HBO NFL-reality series, 'Hard Knocks,' for the second time in five years.
Though many teams opt not to allow the cameras to infiltrate every crevice of their training camp and preseason, fearing it gives opponents a competitive advantage and exposes too much of the team's most secretive plans, the Bengals choosing to give it another shot is an excellent idea this year.
Unlike the Bengals' first go-round in front of HBO's cameras—in which former receiver Chad Johnson played a major role—this season will serve as an introduction to the team's young, talented roster to the world at large, who have mostly left the team ignored over their impressive rise in the past two years.
Including their first 'Hard Knocks' season, the Bengals have finished with an above-.500 record for all but one year, but after Johnson's departure, few NFL fans around the league have found reason to give the Bengals their attention. It was as if the Bengals' being an Ohio team meant that they didn't exist or that they wouldn't be any good. But, in fact, the Bengals have steadily been building one of the most complete rosters in the league, leading to postseason appearances in 2011 and 2012.
Though young—especially on offense—the Bengals haven't had much in the way of growing pains. They managed to ease the transition from former quarterback Carson Palmer to their current, third-year starter Andy Dalton thanks to a talented wide receiver, A.J. Green, and a bruising defense that has steadily improved to become one of the NFL's best.
In 2012, the Bengals defense ranked sixth-overall in yards allowed, eighth in points per game allowed, fifth in tackles and third in sacks. Though their offense wasn't as productive, they still ranked 12th-overall in points per game and Green's 448 yards after the catch ranked him 10th in the league among receivers (subscription required). Their 10-6 record was one win better than their 9-7 finish in 2011 and also marks the first time since 1975-1976 that they've had back-to-back winning records. But yet, it seemed few outside of the AFC North were paying close attention.
That's why the Bengals have a lot more to gain from this added exposure than to lose, regardless of how many sneak peeks other teams may have at any new wrinkles they're installing into their offense and defense or what whiteboard-scrawled depth chart changes are made week by week. It's a chance to say, "This is who we are now," for fans who may have an idea of the Bengals based on who they used to be—a halting joke of a franchise that signs free agents with criminal records and cannot find any consistency.
The agreement to do 'Hard Knocks' for a second time is a way for the Bengals to be viewed as a legitimate Super Bowl contender long before teams start battling for playoff spots later in the year. They can enter into the fan conversation on par with a perennial contender like the New England Patriots because now, they're a known commodity and not just a dark horse in one of the league's most storied divisions. 'Hard Knocks' can do more things for the Bengals, in terms of NFL fans, than any 10-win season or playoff berth.
Another season being trailed by HBO's cameras can turn defensive tackle Geno Atkins into a household name—he's the best in the league at his position, with 12.5 sacks last year. It will get people in other time zones talking about how the Bengals' employment of a two-tight end offense—with veteran Jermaine Gresham and first-round 2013 draft pick Tyler Eifert—is going to be dangerous.
A chance for fans to actually get to know the players on the heretofore under-the-radar Bengals doesn't simply increase exposure—it increases overall respect for the team on a national level (granted it's not a New York Jets-like circus, but the odds of that seem low). Based on their last two seasons on the field, the Bengals should have already gotten it, but that's not how it often works for smaller-market NFL teams.
Instead of the Chad Johnson show, 'Hard Knocks' viewers this year will get a different look at the Bengals, one of them being a serious team quickly developing their young players into the class of the NFL. Whatever drawbacks that come from being featured on the show are vastly outnumbered by the benefits the Bengals franchise will reap as a result of this much exposure, especially when they're seemingly on the brink of becoming one of the league's most dominant franchises.
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Let's get one thing straight: I'm the star of the show. My life is a never ending journey –a movie if you will –starring me. I'm the main attraction. The heroine and the villain. Sometimes I'm one, other times, the other. It's always about me, and if it's not, I'm going to make it about me.
The first line of Rick Warren's infamous spiritual bestseller "The Purpose Driven Life" reads, It's not about you. And so that I am not misunderstood, I admit, I get it. The Christian walk is not about my comfort, my happiness, my personal dreams being fulfilled, my family being safe, or my tears remaining dry. I get that. Just as the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks, and the like was about a cause far bigger than them, the purpose of the Christian walk is far removed from any individual life. The purpose must always begin and end with God.
But that's not what I'm talking about. Life is a series of tests, peaks and pits. Even the most insignificant occurrences have their place in our story.
That's what I was thinking the morning I sat in court battling my ex over a legal issue regarding our children. It was a once tender relationship gone awry, and it was that morning I realized a puzzle piece in my life was broken and had been ignored for…years. Failing to reach an agreement, the judge decided to issue a temporary order and adjourn the session until a later date.
We waited, the man and I, outside the courtroom for paperwork to be drawn up, and a court date set. Me, sitting on a bench, sipping cold coffee. Him, pacing the floor in front of me, talking on his phone to…someone…about what had just transpired. In that moment, I remembered how every area of my life is considered, and balanced. Physically, I try to eat healthy, organic foods, littIe sugar; and run consistently. Mentally, I feed my mind stimulating myself daily with writers like Toni Morrison and James Baldwin. My daily devotional begins my day. Time spent in my Bible ends it. Emotionally, I fill my downtime enjoying my children, having drinks with friends –real friends. I strive to excel in my career, manage my finances, and build a life for myself that would prove an inspiration to others. I seek to always be fulfilling a purpose, all the while strengthening an intimate relationship with the Lord, asking for his guidance and trying to follow his lead.
But this ongoing battle with my ex? Why have I not considered this? Why have I written this off as some added nuisance to my life that may be my cross to bear, the thorn in my side that cannot be removed but only accepted? I don't have to confront it if I can simply disregard it long enough.
Nope. It has a place in my story. A fire detector does not sound to be ignored or to be removed. The sound of the fire detector is not the issue. It is the fire that must be dealt with. This is about me.
What do I need to learn? What do I need to "get" that I'm just not "getting"? Jordan could never expect to be great if he never practiced. Beyonce would never get a step right if she never rehearsed. Yet I say I want to perfect my walk. I ask for patience and humility, and the very opportunities I have to practice patience and humility, I write off as an insurmountable mountain that should be ignored. I can and should acquire a new skill through this ordeal. Only practice makes perfect.
A week later, I learned that an acquaintance had died—someone I knew of from high school—and it reminded me of the fleeting quality of life. Why her and not me? As gut wrenching as it was to hear that someone just like me, from the same town, same mutual friends, reached the end of her life before the age of 30, I was more inclined to wonder what was in this for me. Her death meant something and it was about me.
Considering the number of times I text and drive, despite Oprah's best efforts, the illnesses that run in my family, my grueling high-risk pregnancy, my bouts of depression, I should be dead. But the fact that I'm not brought me back to reality. Death has a way of transforming people. Because I, like her, will inevitably reach the end, am I doing enough? Am I inspiring enough? Am I witnessing enough? Am I serving enough?
No, my purpose is not about me. It's not about me finding my Zen, and living happily ever after, but in every experience, bad or good, in every hardship, every conversation, every friendship lost or gained, it is very much about God honing some quality in me that is needed to fulfill the bigger purpose.
But it is always about me. My life is a concern of His and while my ease at which I experience this life is much less a concern than the makeup of my character, coincidences do not exist in my mind. It's because there can always be something to learn, someone to teach, some skill to perfect, whether it be big or small.
The struggle with my ex in the courtroom that day, the death of my high school friend, even the plight of Dr. King has an angle in there for me. It can all be used to develop the mind and the spirit. Life is what you make it. Let it be said of me that I was selfish because I used every opportunity for my own gain.
Herina Ayot is a freelance writer living in Jersey City, NJ. She is currently writing a novel based loosely on her own life, "The Content of Things Undone." Follow her on Twitter @ReeExperience.


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B.C. health officials urged families to keep up their COVID-19 pandemic discipline as Mother's Day approaches for seniors isolating from infection risk, as B.C. continued to see low numbers of positive tests.
"As we celebrate with our mothers and grandmothers tomorrow, let's show how much we care for them by ensuring we ware doing all we can to keep them safe," Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said in their daily report May 9. "If your mother is older, awaiting surgery or has an underlying illness, avoid any close physical contact and celebrate at a safe distance, unless she is in your immediate household."
The province announced 15 new positive COVID-19 tests, for a total of 2.330 since the pandemic began in B.C. early this year. As of May 9, 1,659 of those people have recovered and tested negative for the virus. There were two additional deaths in the Vancouver Coastal health region, for a total of 129 coronavirus-related deaths in B.C.
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Along with continued low case numbers despite intensive testing of people reporting symptoms, hospitalizations also continued to be low. As of May 9 there were 69 people in hospital, 29 in intensive care. The remaining active infection patients are recovering at home in self-isolation.
For those enjoying recreation or small group visits on the weekend, Dix and Henry reminded them that "few faces in big spaces will be the key to our shared success."
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Public meetings held to explain how people can submit claims
By Allison Sampite-Montecalvo, MAY 30, 2013
CHULA VISTA — The first of three meetings to explain how eligible taxpayers could submit claims for a piece of an $8 million lawsuit settlement attracted a handful of people with questions about the process and criticism for the city of Chula Vista.
The proposed settlement ends a class-action suit by wireless phone users against the city. The June 2011 lawsuit challenged a 5 percent fee the city collected from phone customers under the city's 1970 utility users tax. The suit said the tax was not meant to apply to wireless phone service, and the settlement was reached last month when a San Diego Superior Court judge gave preliminary approval in favor of taxpayers.
The $8 million will be used to pay refunds, litigation expenses and attorneys' fees. Eligible residents can expect a rebate ranging from $35 to hundreds of dollars.
Dan Hutne, 47, is expecting about $208 back, but said he's discouraged by the claim process and others may be, too.
"We've got to jump through hoops to get it back," Hutne said at the meeting May 20 at the civic center library. "It's wrong. We've been disenfranchised of our money."
In November 2010 the city attempted to update the language of its utility laws through Proposition H, which would have applied the tax to newer forms of communication but voters defeated the proposal.
Two Chula Vista residents, Carla Villa, 41, and Vanessa Garza, 36, then brought a lawsuit forward, which was filed by the law offices of CaseyGerry and Capretz & Associates.
Villa and Garza said the lawsuit is about defending resident rights.
"The benefit of it is showing the city it's not right to be charged this tax," Garza said.
Villa said she and Garza thought the tax was an injustice.
"It was always our hope that we would win the lawsuit and hopeful that the facts would speak for itself," she said.
Under terms of the agreement, refunds are available to Chula Vista wireless phone users who paid the city's utility users tax on their wireless phone bills between April 2010 and April 2013.
CaseyGerry attorney Jason C. Evans and Jim Capretz of Capretz & Associates answered questions from residents at the May 20 meeting and helped residents fill out claim forms.
Chula Vista resident Tony Davis attended to see if he is eligible for a rebate and to bring information back to friends who may be affected.
Capretz said the settlement gives eligible residents the opportunity to collect money that should have never been paid in the first place and any concerns should be expressed to the City Council during meetings.
"You have to speak up and be heard and that's exactly what should be done in this situation," he said.
The attorneys anticipate refunds will be disbursed sometime in December but won't know for sure until a September hearing where the judge is expected to give final approval.
"Before this there's an appeal process and a chance for people to object," Capretz said. "If someone files an appeal it could take much longer."
Now that the lawsuit is settled, plaintiffs and their attorneys are trying to get as many eligible residents to tax advantage of the settlement as possible through social media and word of mouth.
Now that the lawsuit is settled, plaintiffs and their attorneys are trying to get as many eligible residents to tax advantage of the settlement as possible through social media and word of mouth.
Any money leftover goes back to the to a city fund solely for the benefit of citizens for fire and police, library and other services.
"It ain't over till it's over but right now we think it's a pretty good accord," Capretz said.
The remaining meetings are June 17 and July 14. Claims must be filed no later than July 31.


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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
I Believe in Common-Sense Too, Obama: I'm Buying More Guns
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In an article published on December 8th by the Chicago Sun-Times, Barack Obama was quoted as saying the following: "I believe in common-sense gun safety laws, and I believe in the Second Amendment," Obama said at a news conference. "Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear. I said that throughout the campaign. I haven't indicated anything different during the transition. I think people can take me at my word."
Well, politicians have lots of words--which they are very quick to forget as soon as they get elected to office. Actions always speak louder, as the axiom goes. And Barack Obama's voting record as an Illinois senator and all the way down through his political career has been as fanatically anti-gun as could ever be. Obama never saw a gun control law he didn't like. But now, as president-elect, he'd like us all to believe differently.
Peter Hamm, spokesman for the so-called Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, chimed in on Obama's comments as well. In the same Chicago Sun-Times article, responding to the recent unprecedented spike in firearms sales across America, Hamm was quoted as saying that he and his organization regarded such gun buyers as "a bit stupid."
The article quoted Hamm further: "Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don't think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."
I make two observations here: The first is how glad I am that Hamm, Obama, and those of their ilk don't make "progress" on their gun-grabbing agenda very quickly at all. The second is how arrogantly Hamm decides that gun owners have "more than enough." I don't know about you, but I sure as hell don't want Hamm or Obama or anyone judging for me how many guns and how much ammo I own is "enough."
A few words of my own for Barack Obama if he ever gets around to reading this: I believe in common-sense too, and always have. And common-sense dictates that what people do is always more important than what they say. Further, your stance, as expressed by your past actions, shows even the village idiot that your words are nothing but flat-out lies. A lot of my fellow Vermonters may have voted you into office--because of the ongoing wars, the abysmal economic situation, the loss of civil liberties under Dubya--but needless to say, I wasn't one of them. In fact, I didn't vote at all, and am not even registered to do so. You see, unlike yourself, I don't believe in using my guns, or anyone else's, to control other people's lives and property, just as I don't want my own controlled--by you, or anyone else. But as to those Vermonters who were foolish enough to vote for you, it wasn't because they want gun control. Vermont has a long-standing opposition to that kind of fascism, and we don't beg the government pretty-please if we feel like carrying a concealed weapon, or keeping handguns in our cars, or owning so-called "assault weapons." That's right--we don't get permitted, licensed, or fingerprinted to carry our guns in Vermont--a fact that must just burn you up inside. Having said that, Vermont voters were not only foolish to vote at all in the first place, but even more foolish to believe that you're going to bring the troops home, fix the economy, or repeal the "PATRIOT" Act. You're not going to change any of those things. But if the Democrat-controlled Congress delivers you a passed gun control bill to sign, it's pretty clear you'll be putting your autograph on it. After all, that's the real kind of "change" you keep shouting about, isn't it?
So up your ass with your "word," Obama. Before you plant it at your desk in the Oval Office on January 20th, I'll be the proud new owner of at least an AK-47 or an AR-15, plus probably a .40 caliber automatic pistol with a 15 round magazine capacity. And, I'm buying a few 40 or 50 round after-market magazines for that rifle, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition for both guns, in addition to stocking up for the firearms I already own.
If common-sense has shown me anything, Barack, it's to never, ever trust sociopathic, megalomaniacal, power-seeking, control-freak, fascist bastards like you.


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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 — The bottom-line message of a report the Defense Department submitted to Congress this week is that the U.S.-India security relationship is strong and getting stronger, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia said here yesterday.
Robert Scher briefed reporters on the U.S.-India Security Cooperation Report, submitted to Congress on Nov. 1.
President Barack Obama called the relationship between the United States and India one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. "The U.S.-India relationship is a priority for the U.S. government and for the Department of Defense, because we believe that a strong bilateral partnership is in the United States' interests and benefits both of our countries," Scher said.
It is only in the past decade that the relationship has grown. During the Cold War, India led the nonaligned movement, but tilted toward Moscow. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Indian leaders rethought their strategy and moved toward the United States, Scher said.
Since 2004, "what was once a nascent relationship between unfamiliar nations has evolved into a real partnership between two of the pre-eminent powers in Asia," he added. "Today, U.S.-India defense ties are strong and growing. Our military-to-military engagement has increased steadily over the past 10 years, and now includes a robust slate of dialogues, military exercises, defense trade, personnel exchanges and armaments cooperation."
The deputy assistant secretary quickly pointed out that the security ties are just one facet of the overall relationship between the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy. "We believe that our engagements today will help as India takes on a greater leadership role in South Asia, the Indian Ocean region and globally, on a range of issues," he said.
Scher called the relationship between the two nations unique, and he stressed that the United States wants, "a partnership of equals, where India is enmeshed in the world as a key actor, and in regional security architectures, where we can and we do work together on shared interests."
The nine-page report highlights the positive trajectory of U.S.-India security cooperation, Scher said, emphasizing that the report focuses strictly on security cooperation.
"This by no means captures the entirety of the U.S.-India relationship," he told reporters. "For instance, although we don't mention it in the report, the U.S. Department of Defense does and will continue to support cooperation led by our interagency partners on issues such as countering weapons of mass destruction, to include nuclear security and nonproliferation, as well as cooperation on peacekeeping, space and counterterrorism."
The report details the breadth and depth of the U.S.-India exercise program and the extent of military-to-military contacts between the two nations. It also addresses operational cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and counterpiracy and other maritime security. "These are two of the areas where we see the most potential to advance our cooperation with India," Scher said.
The report highlights some military sales, including the recent sales of C‑130J and C‑17 aircraft to India.
"The report also discusses the importance of personnel exchanges, which is really one of our highest-priority issues," Scher said. "Our goal is to look for opportunities to enable further training and exchanges between our two defense establishments in order to increase exposure and familiarization of our service personnel to each other's countries. History has shown time and again the importance of these personal relationships."
The report touches on the way forward for the relationship, detailing a five-year plan to enhance bilateral security. The United States would like to improve and expand the relationship in four areas, Scher said: combined military exercises, defense trade and support for India's military modernization, cooperation in areas such as humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief and cooperation with other Asian partners.
"The goal across these areas of cooperation is not necessarily to do more, but rather to find ways to make our cooperation mutually beneficial and to broaden the already strong foundation of the defense relationship," he said.
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